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  1. Well it was hot so I'm permitted a crap thread title. Dodge on the walkaround while Peter polishes the canopy... "That bit's the engine" Engine start... ...and up we go... Fingers crossed, flight testing shall resume next week. Thanks for the invite Peter.
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    F-111K

    Entirely plausible and quite common for books to recycle wrong information originally found in just a single publication (not saying the F-111K wing is long or short - no idea personally).
  3. Popped up to Newark to visit Cockpit Fest - an event I normally miss as it clashes with Kemble's big show but as I'm hobbling about with a bad back and can only carry one camera plus short lens, I could make it this year as Kemble wasn't a practical option! It's a good event - no extra charge on normal museum admission, loads of cockpits to admire, and many of the owners are happy to let you sit in them which is a big hit with young - and old! Great for getting photos of the interiors too, very handy as modelling reference... It's not just cockpits - here's a Hurricane - work in progress! This is the front cockpit of the Hawk nose in the background of the shot above, XX320, the one that crashed on landing at Cranwell a couple of years ago. Remarkably unscathed by the ejection seat rockets but full of brick dust from the building it demolished! Good to see another Jaguar cockpit in preservation. BBMF Dakota flying past overhead too. As well as the cockpits on display there were various instrument panel projects in one of the hangars: ...and a live engine run (Alvis Leonides): Got one more pic but it won't let me post it until somebody else replies... doh...
  4. Started over a year ago for the naval GB... can't accuse me of knocking them out too quickly eh. Shows up a bit green in these pics but looks alright in the flesh, honest...! Build thread here Lovely kit for the most part, similar standard to their Hunters and I think the only real problem I had was the forward fuselage ending up a bit wider than the cowling and nose gear doors - I suspect that was my fault and a bit more fettling when fitting the bomb bay / gear bay assembly would have sorted that.
  5. Yeah, it's not a Jag seat. More like F-4 or Lightning. You want a Mk.9 - http://www.martin-baker.co.uk/products/Eje...k--9/Mk--9.aspx
  6. Good build but where did you get that ejector seat from...?
  7. Very nice but I bet he hasn't painted the starboard sides...
  8. I've got one of my 1/72 kits out of the stash. Part of me is going "Do it, you don't exactly lack for reference material!" and the rest of me is going "You've got two Jags part-built, get them done first you fool". 40 parts in the nose gear? I'm swaying towards the Jags!!
  9. Finally got the beast finished. 28 - radio aerial rigging from smoke coloured .004 inch nylon 'wonder invisible thread'. Fiddly to put in place but works a treat - basically wrap it around the point where you want it glued, add a dab of PVA glue, then hold the thread under tension e.g. by sticking another end down somewhere handy with masking tape. Once the glue has set you can snip off the excess and move on to the next attachment point. Also the twin pole aerials on the upper decking from stretched sprue. 29 - props on, I ended up gluing them solidly in place as the rear prop didn't move as freely as the front and there was an unsightly gap between the two prop bosses. 30 - towel rail aerial added from brass rod with plastic card supports. 31 - various wing aerials from plastic card The really attentive will notice I've repainted the nose wheel hubs so they are green/red on the correct sides now... Think I'll wait for daylight for some more piccies of the finished thing!
  10. The Mk.8VA was specific to the TSR2 - the current Mk.8 is unrelated and just uses a 'vacant' Mk number - it's actually a lightweight Mk.10. The Mk.8VA was a good seat - very advanced for the time and many of the concepts went into the Mk.9 (Jaguar & Harrier), which has seen little noticeable tinkering since its intro to service, so I wouldn't bother tinkering with the Mk.8VA for a whiffer, other than perhaps painting it black instead of the unpainted alloy finish of the early seats on the TSR2 development batch aircraft.
  11. I hope you have flagellated yourself with a wet lettuce leaf!
  12. You need to open up the end of those ducts more, Martin: ...you're only half way there on the aperture as you can see from the above. XR220 is unlikely to have ever carried internal stores I'm afraid - it was comprehensively instrumented for measuring airframe loads and vibration, flutter and so on, and as part of that was to carry external stores only. XR227 was to have been the internal (and external) stores test bird. Highly likely to have been fitted with the intake cameras too though...
  13. From me, special price - £100! I'll be selling copies myself on the web but not until nearer the publication date and I'm not likely to be competing with any discount that Amazon may apply at any point. Not finalised my plans on this yet. People buying from Amazon have bumped it up their sales charts nicely today - currently #14 in aviation books and #8,100 overall; and the higher it goes the more chance people will see it on there so it's all good!
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